Strong photoluminescence enhancement of silicon quantum dots by their near-resonant coupling with multi-polar plasmonic hot spots

Nanoscale

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2472-2475

  Nychyporuk, T ^a   Zakharko, Yu ^a   Serdiuk, T ^a   Marty, O ^a   Lemiti, M ^a   Lysenko, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868539692     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1nr10241a     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. L. T. Canham Silicon quantum wire array fabrication by electrochemical and chemical dissolution of wafers Appl. Phys. Lett. 1990 57 1046-1048.
2. A. G. Cullis L. T. Canham Visible light emission due to quantum size effects in highly porous crystalline silicon Nature 1991 353 335-338.
3. V. Kumar., Nanosilicon, Elsevier, Oxford, 2007.
4. G. M. Credo et al., External quantum efficiency of single porous silicon nanoparticles Appl. Phys. Lett. 1999 74 1978-1980.
5. W. L. Wilson et al., Quantum confinement in size-selected, surface-oxidized silicon nanocrystals Science 1993 262 1242-1244.
6. L. EfrosAl et al., Nonlinear optical effects in porous silicon: photoluminescence saturation and optically induced polarization anisotropy Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 1997 56 3875-3884.
7. D. V. Talapin et al., Highly luminescent monodisperse CdSe and CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals synthesized in a hexadecyamine –tryotylphosphine oxide – trioctylphosphine mixture Nano Lett. 2001 1 207-211.
8. W. C. W. Chan et al., Quantum dot bioconjugates for ultrasensitive nonisotopic detection Science 1998 281 2016-2018.
9. M. Bruchez et al., Semiconductor nanocrystals as fluorescent biological labels Science 1998 281 2013-2016.
10. J. A. Schuller et al., Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation Nat. Mater. 2010 9 193-204.
11. Y. Jin et al., Plasmonic fluorescent quantum dots Nat. Nanotechnol. 2009 4 571-576.
12. P. Anger et al., Enhancement and quenching of single-molecule fluorescence Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006 96 113002.
13. U. Kreibig, M. Vollmer. Optical properties of metal clusters; Springer Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg, 1995.
14. I. I. Naumov et al., Plasmonic resonances and hot spots in Ag octopods Appl. Phys. Lett. 2010 96 033105.
15. N. J. Borys et al., Intermittency in second-harmonic radiation from plasmonic hot spots on rough silver films Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter Mater. Phys. 2009 80 161407(R).
16. A. Bek et al., Fluorescence enhancement in hot spots of AFM – designed gold nanoparticles sandwiches Nano Lett. 2008 8 485-490.
17. P. P. Pompa et al., Metal-enhanced fluorescence of colloidal nanocrystals with nanoscale control Nat. Nanotechnol. 2006 1 126-130.
18. J.-H. Song et al., Large enhancement of fluorescence efficiency from CdSe/ZnS quantum dots induced by resonant coupling to spatially controlled surface plasmons Nano Lett. 2005 5 1557-1561.
19. H Langhuth, et al., Strong photoluminescence enhancement from colloidal quantum dot near silver nano-island films, J. Fluoresc. 10.1007/s10895-010-0740-z.
20. K. Matsuda et al., Photoluminescence enhancement and quenching of single CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals on metal surfaces dominated by plasmon resonant energy transfer Appl. Phys. Lett. 2008 92 211911.
21. I. M. Soganci et al., Localized plasmon-engineered spontaneous emission of CDSe/ZnS nanocrystals closely-packed in the proximity of Ag nanoisland films for controlling emission linewidth, peak and intensity Opt. Express 2007 15 14289-14298.
22. J. S. Biteen et al., Spectral tuning of plasmon-enhanced silicon quantum dot luminescence Appl. Phys. Lett. 2006 88 131109.
23. N.-M. Park et al., Quantum confinement in amorphous silicon quantum dot embedded in silicon nitride Phys. Rev. Lett. 2001 86 1355-1357.
24. J.-F. Lelièvre et al., Correlation of optical and photoluminescence properties in amorphous SiNx:H thin films deposited by PECVD or UVCVD Thin Solid Films 2006 511–512 103-107.
25. T. Nychyporuk et al. Electroless deposition of Ag nanoparticles on the surface of SiNx:H dielectric layers Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2010 94 2314-2317.
26. G. Xu et al., Wavelength tuning of surface plasmon resonance using dielectric layers on silver island films Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003 82 3811-3813.
27. D. D. Evanoff et al., Synthesis and optical properties of silver nanoparticles and arrays ChemPhysChem 2005 6 1221-1231.
28. J. Robertson M. J. Powell Gap states in silicon nitride Appl. Phys. Lett. 1984 44 415-417.
29. C. Mo et al., Luminescence of nanometer-sized amorphous silicon nitride solids J. Appl. Phys. 1993 73 5185-5188.
30. Website address: www.imagemet.com.